Treatment Expenditure Pattern of Epileptic Patients: A Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital, Kolkata, India

Table 3

Distribution of the study population according to the average travel expenditure for their visit to Medical College Neuromedicine OPD (𝑛=315).

Expenditure/; month (INR)*	Rural		Urban		Total
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Nil	0	0.0	24	10.1	24	7.6
1–25	0	0.0	87	36.7	87	27.6
26–50	34	43.6	104	43.9	138	43.8
51–75	22	28.2	16	6.8	38	12.1
76–100	18	23.1	4	1.7	22	7.0
>100	4	5.1	2	0.8	6	1.9
Total	78	100	237	100	315	100
Mean ± SD; (INR )	66.47±31.25		29.36±18.36		38.55±27.39; 𝑈=1769.5,; 𝑃=0.001

∗INR: Indian rupees.